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We understand that Mr.. John o. Sar-
gent has sold his interest in the shoe store
of Saunders & Sargent, to Mr.. Robert
Cole Mr.. Sargent, who retires from the
business on account of i'll health, will be
greatly missed, he having proved one of
the most reliable and accommodating Of
our business men.
We understand that Mr.. +. l. Dorr, of
the 0rland Pant Factory, has made dur
ing the month ending March 6, $500 pairs
of pants. A pretty good months work.
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Drunkenness. or Liquor Habit, can be
Cured by administering Dr.. iiAines'
Golden Specific.

1t can be given in cup "f coffee or tea With
out the know Ledge of the person tahiu-, il. ci-
fccting Il speedy aud permanent cure, whether
the patient is moderate drinkcr or m AFRO
hoC wreck. Thousands Of drunkard~ have
been made temperate men who have taken the
Golden Specific in their coffee without thor
know ledge, and p-day believe they quit drink
ng of their own free will No harmful effects
result from its administration. Cures guar
anteed. Send for circular aud full particulars,
Address in confidence GOLDEN SPECIFIC CO..
lSj Race St. Cincinnati, ONO.
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me note book twrites) "AU An-,Sc1ns cheers
tobacco ehieh Is called 'Ha2pv 1ho.gM' The
r.Girrs Adre patented. and u 10 quite the CORRECT
thing In america to chee Happy 7hosgkf rare
line pfug tobacco, made BY the UisoH : Me- aftay
Jo5-t~oo Co. Of Niddi.to,-r, Ohio and sold ~ the
cr,.,,rs ererprhere far ten ceafs a pIag. Mem
riIfry ith HAPPY Thnueht" tobacco. so!1
BY all dealers. Try it Eext time.
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When Baby ~as sick, We gave her Castor.A,
When she was a Child she cried for astoria,
When she became Miss, she chung 10 CAstoria,
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The New Jersey Senatorial deadlock
was broken Wednesday afternoon by the
election Of Rufus Blodgett, Democrat.
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Trenton.

At the annual town meeting, held in this
town yesterday, the town officers chosen
were Lyman ). Hopkins John d. Renick,
David b. Alley, Selcctmen, Assessors Of
Taxes and ovcrscers of Poor; T. j. Hop
kins, Clerk X. X. Thompson. Treasurer :;
7. l.. Leland, Collector of Taxes \ NJ.
Spear Supcry isor Of schools Money
raised for support Of schools SIP; money
raised for support of poor, $3.50; money
raised for incidcntals s275 money raised
for highway, cash, $50; money raised for
highway, labor. $500.
March
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married..

Elswoth-Mar ;, by Rev. Dr Tcuucy Ny
Eben y slower, Of Ellsworth, and Miss Annie &
hlatte OF Bangor.
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greenhouses and can furnish flowers Of all
kinds at short notice t,n44s
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H. II. 5owLI.
Attorney 4 Counselor al Law.

Peers Block, Corner Main and state stree! 4.
Ellsworth, Mai ne.
81 Prompt attention given to all matter
trusted, 20tf
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emoe5C.eow

THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all
i concerned that he has been duly appoir ted
and has taken upon himself, the trust of an Ad-
ministrator of the Estate of Ann Jordan,
late OF Ellsworth. I'm the County of Hancock, de-
ceased. BY giving bond the law directs; he
therefore requests all persons who indebted to
the said deceased's estate TO make immediate pay
ment and those who have any demands thereon
to exhibit the same for payment.
A. r. BURNHAM.
February .. 1887. 3w."
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Carriers Little Liver Pills may well b
termed ''Perfection." Their gentle action an
good effect on the system, really make them
nerfect little pill. They please those who Us
them. For sale by 5. u. Wiggin.
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Whiting Bros. and s. D. Wiggin have been
painting the interior Of their stores.
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LOCAL NOTICES.


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dinner. Don't forget this. For sale by ;. ID.
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"A Word TO the Wise is Sufficient. :

Catarrh is not simply an Inconvenience, I'M
pleasant to the sufferer and dis@usiirg to eth
ers-it is an advanced outpost of approaching
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Before Il is too late, use DIR. Sage's Catarrh
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yourself with quack medicines Till 1t Is too
late-'till the streamlet becomes resistiess
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City and County.
Vote Of Ellsworth.
MAYOR,

YB Aiken, II. Is. Mason, Abram Lori
Rep. Dem. Pro.
Ward liz los 10
2-ll2 90
~ li3
ALpERMrY
Ward flames l.. Cook, Iii
John L. Mccarthy Isl
Thomas O. Tracy
Ward 2-John W. Jordan. ia
Thomas o. Tracy, -
Ward 3-Chas. f Morrison, -
Chas. NJ. Whitcomh. II
Ward flames A. Staples. d
Geo. W. Patten, 81
Ward 5-Owen Moran, l2s
Robert b. Holmes ~
James L. Cook.
wARpESs.
Ward Thomas +. Hale, l+G
Willis l.. Pratt, li2
Thomas Holmes,
Samuel Royal. Jr,.
Adelbert W Belts. -
Robert Carter. 3"
Ward samuel Royal. Jr los
Herbert r. Holmes. 'n
Ward 3-Anscl p. Goodale, -
Chas. NJ. Whitcomb, IL
Chas. +. Morrison. 10
Ward i-Newell Wilson. -
Allen A. Potter. ~
Ward Curtis X. Foster, 49,
VIM. J. Logan, -
Thomas f.. Hale.
Ward John f. Doyle. ~
Charles H. Grindal l42
Thomas Lee,
Geo. Ii. Brooks,
Lloyd Higgins,
Edward J. Hodgkins 20
James S. Hodgkins.
Ward 2-Thomas f. Lee, ~
Geo. II. Brooks, ~
Ward Sired l.. Frazier, -
Edward 7. Lord. p
Ward 4-Dexter ?. Clement, 10
Geo. S. ODER, ~
Ward Prank II. Gould 1876
HAS. IL
Joseph W Nealley. 81
CoSsTABiEs.
Ward Joseph W. Patten. l45
Charles +. Stevens l34
Dorephus L. Fields
John c. Reed, 2S
James Hamilton.
Ward 2-Dorephus L. Fields, 10
jeremiah Hurley, 80
Ward 3-Burnham NJ. Rockwell, 16
Judson A. Austin, -
Ward fired James, +6
John p. Phillips. A
Ward daniel Doyle, l3s
Geo. X. Campbell. So
Joseph W. Patten,
In Ward /, James l.. Cook was the can
didate for Alderman of both the Republi
can and the Prohibition parties. In thi.
ward there was no election of Warden
Clerk or Constable.
In Ward 3, Chas. f. Morrison was the
candidate for Alderman of both the Re
publican and Democratic parties.
I'm the nuaStiop IF piyinU $1,000 in aif
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Colonel John Allen
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Died.

Obituary notices, beyond the Date. Name ortl iap
must be pad for att rate of ten. cents q Inc,
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Quite English, Yer Know"

"Happy Thought, wei,
that's am using. Don't
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me boy, I've travelled
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been all over the world
half . dozen timer, Doat
yer knon' HAPPY
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well. well. Most extraor-
thinknp iii nut II IN
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nanoock District lodge. !. o. Q. Z.

The annual session of the Hancock District
Lodge, of Good Tempars was held in this city,
on Thursday of last week. The meeting was
call, 10 order at IL A. NJ, by j. c. Chilcott,
Dist ict Templar. The following appoint
ments were made to ill vacancies: f. b.
Smith, District Councillor; Charles Smith,
District Marshal; Miss Ada Davis, d. d. NJ. !;
Edwin SWEET. P. d. Templar. Vacancies on
committees were filled as follows: Creden-
tials, l. NJ. Grant; Finance, Chas. Smith, Mrs.
Joseph Mason and Miss A. j. Harding.
II was voted that all present be accepted as
delegates.
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lyr&0nrnew
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for the following: Last Saturday parties en-
gagged in hauling lumber at Reeds Pond on the
Mount Desert Branch lost two horses in pecu-
liar manner. Some boys who were at play had
set fire to tree near road and the horses
hauling load of logs were just passing when
the tree fell 1t struck one horse across the
back and another across the neck, killing them
instantly. The owners belonged in or near
Ellsworth, SO we were informed, and the loss
will fall very heavily upon them.
. There will be a calico ball at Ever
green Hall, Trenton, on Wednesday even
ing, March l6, music by joys orchestra.
Mr.. John Taft, the genial clerk of Mr..
E. f. Robnson's jewelry store, paid a
short visit on last week, to his home at
Gouldsboro
On this "wednesday forenoon the
horses of A. W. Cushman and C. c. Young
had a trot on State street, at S25 side.
We 90 to press to early too give result.
-Bucksport District Western Minister
ial Association at Ellsworth, March 7, 1887.
by Rev. Winfred Baldwin of Bar Harbor
on Monday evening, from Mum. IA "a: A
good audience in attendance who listened
with evident satisfaction. Tuesday morn
ing, after devotional exercises, Rev. c. +.
Libby called the association to order, and
the discussion of the programme arranged
began. The following brethren were in at
tendance: Winfred Baldwin, c. l.. Bang
hardt F. S. Brooks, J. b. Conley, 0. II.
Fernald, II. E. Frohock, S. L. Hanscome,
c. L. Haskell, Wesley Haskell, c. Z.
Libby, c. A. Maine. H. L. Mccain, Harry
Norton, V. p. Wardwell, +. G. Whitman,
also Mrs. W. T. Jewell, and Mrs. Prof.
A. +. Chase.
Per Sec
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LATER NEWS.

THREE fremen were killed, ten fatally in
jured and another badly hurt by falling wall:
at fire in St. Louis
JOHN M. CLAY, the only living son of th'
statesman Henry Clay, fell dead Of heart
disease few days since at his home neal
Lexington, KY. He was sixty-Eve years old
THE Virginia Republicans, under the lead
of General Mahone have decided to hold nc
State Convention, but to issue an address to
the people.
HEAVY freshets have almost totally de-
stroyed over $1,000 acres of rice on the Sa-
vannah river.
A HEAVY rain storm has prevailed pretty
generally throughout the Northwest, and tho
drought-afflicted region has been greatly re-
ieved.
FRANCIS LA FLEScHE, q full-blooded
Omaha Indian, employed in the Bureau of
Indian Affairs, has been promoted from a
$1,000 clerkship to a clerkship of the 81, 200
class. La Flesche was educated at the mis-
sion school of an Indian agency in Nebraska,
and was appointed by Secretary kirkwood
to 5000 place in the Indian Bureau.
In response to its recent circular the Treas
nry Department has received applications for
the payment of interest on bonds amounting
to many millions, and its offers to purchase
bonds in advance of their falling due has
been met by numerous proposals fronlholders
r. coll
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An Immense Scroll Saw.

There is a man in the Sea Beach Palace
exposition on Coney Island who works
out the most delicate articles with band
saw nineteen feet long and revolving at.
the rate of over a mile minute. Upon
this immense machine the skilled opera
tor in my presence sawed out four chairs,
all complete with legs and backs, but so
small that the four were placed on the
end of a lead pencil at one time. Then!
q dozen knives and forks Of the most d1ss
minutive size were made and placed
around the lead pencil. So small were,
they that although the entire dozen were
placed round the pencil not one OF them
touched tie other. Thel the operator
trimmed his finger nails on the huge saw
as clcvcrly and as easily as one could do
it with renkniie. Wctt;ng his thumb
he pressed the ball of it into some saw
dust, and then sawed the sawdust on the.
thumb without scratching the skin, yet 9:
single nervous witch of the arm would
lave cost him haal. All sorts of curl;
Gus puzzles ere turned out with astonishr-
;ny iapidlty from all sorts of misshapens
blocks of wood. Even articles of cloths
ing as thin and flexible rs cloth are
worked out by this ,asgic:an from little.
pieccs Of wood with lis big saw. The
cap he works in was sawed out OF over
1000 pieces of wood, no two of which
arc the same size or shape.-B'Oosly1ti
EuU1e rs
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he finishes his hasty toilet as the horsesl
dash out of the house. The speed with
which company gets out upon the street.
at night, when all the men except thej
watchman are abed and asleep, is almostl
incredible. Before the first round on the|
fire bells is rung the company is ready toi
start. The usual timeis nine or ten sec-l
onds. The horses are selected with all
most as much care as the men. Strength,
soundness and intelligence are required.
The horses have to drag heavy loads
from 1000 to 5000 pounds-at good
rate of speed. When a new horse is pur-
chased he is generally put into stall bel
side an old and well-trained horse. Att
first, on the sounding of an alarm, man,
detailed for the purpose, takes the horse
by the halter and rushes down to his|
place. The animal soon learns his place.
and becomes as eager as his mate to gotl
to it. The men become verv much at
tachcd to their horses, and the horsesI
themselves become very much attached to|
each other. When horse is staken from AMI
engine house his mate is often unconsol-
able, and shows his grief over the separa-
tion in many ways.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

The Boston yacht Volunteer has proven her
self the fastest of all American yachts by
easily defeating the Mayhower, Puritan, and
other fast vessels in a forty-iive-mile race at
Newport. The Volunteer it is expected, will
win the trial races, and thus be chosen tc
compete with the fast British yacht Thistle
in the international race for the America
cup at New York this autumn.
FIVE acres of land over coal mine near
Pittston, Penn, caved in suddenly few
days since, wrecking three houses.
THE expulsion of the Socialists from the
United Labor party in New York city has
raised big row. The Socialists declare tney
will ruin the new party.
GEORGE DRUMMoSD, Earl of Perth and
possessed of other titles of nobility, died q
few days since in a New York hospital
leaving wife and child in extreme destltu.
tion. When fifteen years old he eloped to
America with his grandmotherS maid. and
ever since had tried to support himself by
various employmentS His family refused to
permit his return unless he left his wife.
THE Massachusetts, Commissioners on Con-
tagious Diseases among Domestic Animals
have established a quarantine against cattle
from New York State.
GRAND MASTER WORKMAN PowDERLY
has issued another circular to the Knights OF
Labor, denouEcing produce and other ex'
changes and the Spectators in food products.
E. T. BALDWIN leaped from a balloon q
thousand feet high in the dir at Rockaway
N. Y, and with the aid Of an open parachute
descended safely to the earth.
The American Association for the Ad,
vancement of Science has been in session al
New York Scientists fl ON all sections OF
the Union attended, and many scientific
topics were discussed.
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Foreign.

ANOTHER American vessel - the North
Haven schooner j. H. Perlins-has been
seized by the Canadian officials at Souris,
Prince Edwards Island. The charge is viola
tion of the Canadian customs law by shipping
men, and the punishment is fine OF s4OO for
each offense.
VIOLENT shocks of earthquake have been
felt at Laghouat, Algeria. A number OF
houses were destroyed.
THREE Canadian sealers have been seized
by United States cruiser in the Behrlng Sea.
A FIRE in London destroyed Whitley s
enormous drapery and general stores and
warehouses, causing a loss OF 81, 23O, ,UO0:
Three employees and two firemen were killed
by falling fifty feet, and many other men
were injured.
A SEVERE earthquake shock has been felt
throughout the island Of Cyprus.
A VAST fire is raging in great forest on
the German-B ,lgian frontier.
The cholera is spreading in Italian towns.
THE wheat crops of France and Russia are
reported in good condition,
MADAME ELLUINI, q former queen OF
operetta, while travelling in n coach in
France, was robbed of a valise containing
valuables worth $l60,0O0.
Hon. JAMES G. BLAINE has been visiting
various points of interest in Ireland
S1GNoR BovE, a noted Arctic explorer,
committed suicide at Verona, Italy.
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CHICAGO "BOODLERS."

Eleven Officials and Ex-Officials Con-
victed in Ono Batch.
Justice dealt the Chicago boodlers blow
between the eyes Friday evening, not as hard
blow as was expected, but still a substan-
tial blow. The great case, in which
an ex-warden of the County Insane
Asylum, four e1-members of the Board
of County Commissioners and seven
members Of the present board were
charged with conspiring to defraud Cook
County by false pretenses, and second, con-
spring to obtain money from Cook County
by false pretenses came to all end with con-
viction of the entire twelve and verdict fi1-
ing the punishment of four at a fine of 81 ,0OO
and of seven of the others at two
years Imprisonment in the penitentiary.
Commissioner George e. Klehm, president OF
the present board and the twelfth member of
the gang, pleaded guilty a week before and
his punishment will be fixed by the court.
Several of the men sentenced are noted cor
ruptionistS.
About eight o'clock, p. m., information was
received that the jury had reached verdict.
Instantly the court room was in commotion,
while the people along the corridors and on
the sidewalks were on tiptoe of expectation.
The eleven defendantS-some pale and ner
vous, others swaggeringly defiant-steppedto
their row of black chairs just as the jurors
entered. The loud buzz of excited converse
tion ceased with startling suddenness. All of
the jury studiously avoided looking in the
direction OF the accused. The faces of the
talesmen were ominously grave. When tho
verdict was handed in and the clerk with
trembling voice announced one after another
of the entire eleven guilty, the defendants
seemed rooted to their chairs, the very EN-
bodiments of despair.
Then began the list of penalties. Com
missioner McClaughry, two years" There
was start of surprise among the spectators
The extreme penalty of the law was three
years, and fine of $1,000 Nothing
less had been expected by the great ma
jority of those present. "CommiSsloner
Ochs, two years." read the Clerk, and
the defendants began to look up.
Commissioners Leydcn, Van Pelt, Wren and
Wasserman, and Warden Varnell all got two
years, and every one looked measurably
relieved except Wren. He turned ashen
and seemed utterly dazed. The crowd
was now prepared for any surprise, and il
came speedily in the following statement:
commissioners Mccarthy, Oliver, CasSel-
man and Cells, n fine of 81 ,0O0." A look of
unrnistalable eXultution took possession of
the countenance Of Mccarthy, the burly
commissioner, who had throughout the trial,
and for months previous, been the most con-
spicuously attacked of all the crowd.
Immediately those of the defendants who
had ESCAPED with fine were released on bail.
The others were renlanded to Jail. A motion
for new trial for every one was entered by
the defendants attorney.
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How to Train a Canary.

Set the cage on table near where you|
wish to sit; after little conference with
the bird, introduce finger between the|
wire near the favorite perch, yourself oct
cupicd with book or paper the while.
Presently, as it shows no disposition to|
harm him, he cautiously goes up to e4-
anime it. Then he picks to ascertain its|
quality, maybe he fights it. That Is
well; he no longer fears it. Pay him
with little bird food and put him away.
Next day try him again. He may go|
further and light upon it, or ne may pei
several days getting thus familiar. BEL
patient. Once this step is attained, vary
the programme by introducing the finger
in other spots. He will soon light upon
it at any point or angie. Then try the1
door, at first the finger unde. it, next
time fasten it open, blockading egress]
with the rest of the hand as one finger
extends within. When he pcrches on 1t,
draw him forth little, next time tempt
him to the perch outside little, and sol
on. In a short time you have but to]
oper the cage door, uplift finger, and
he is sure to fly for it; and he may thus
be called to any part of the room to rest
on the familiar perch.
Most birds learn this familiarity in al
few DAYS. vet there arc those who will bel
two to four weeks about it.--Our Ddna6|
IEj,u1Ls